I have plugged in my new Seagate 3TB expansion harddrive and blue light is flashing, but it does not show under My PC?

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Whom i think youre seagate is on reading mode or not yet ready to use due to its still reading the data in the disk try the link below so you can follow there instructuions HDD External Hard Drive Corrupted and Unreadable Storage

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Posted on Oct 16, 2018

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There are a number of things that can make external hard drive undetected.

Posted on Dec 29, 2018

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Vivek Viswambharan

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SOURCE: msi pm8m-v series micro-atx mainboard is not detecting 160gb seagate sata harddrive

Had u properly connected the driver to motherboard..?

U can change the sata cable. Check the power connection also.

Posted on Jan 19, 2008

Anonymous

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SOURCE: Data Recovery from Seagate Desktop Expansion 500GB External Hard

This is a solution I have used in the past and it has worked. It's a Seagate Recover utility for end users.
https://services.seagate.com/diysoftware.aspx

If the data is absolutley critical and very valuable, you can send it to Seagate and they are very good at recovery as well. It gets a little pricey at $800, but I too have had to use that as well for mission critical data I could not afford to lose.

https://services.seagate.com/consumer_standard_services.aspx

Posted on Nov 06, 2009

Anonymous

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SOURCE: Can I leave my Seagate expansion external hard plugged in

Hello

Yes, you can leave the device plugged in, you do not need to unplug it if you turn off the computer, do remember to safely remove when you plug it out though.

Kind regards
Andrea

Posted on Dec 26, 2009

Anonymous

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SOURCE: I have a Seagate Expansion Harddrive 500gb. When

The external storage device has several major components:
* USB cable
* external power-supply
* disk-drive inside the enclosure
* USB-to-disk-drive adapter inside the enclosure.
Try a different USB cable.
Try a different USB port on your computer.
Try a USB port on a different computer.
Take a multi-meter, and measure the output voltage/amperage of the power-supply,
and compare with the specifications on the label of the power-supply.
Open the enclosure, and remove the disk-drive, and attach it as a "slave" drive in a desktop computer, to see if bypassing the USB-to-disk-drive adapter bypasses the problem.
Look at the label on the disk-drive, for manufacturer, product-number, serial-number, and manufacture date. Access the manufacturer's web-site, and use "check warranty status" to see if the warranty still is valid. If so, the drive can be replaced, at minimal cost to you.
Buy a new, compatible, disk-drive, and install it in the enclosure, to "revive" your external storage device.
Search online for a professional "data recovery service". For a significant fee, they can repair your disk-drive, just long-enough to copy your files to a new disk-drive.

Posted on Nov 06, 2010

Alejandro Hernandez

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SOURCE: I have plugged in seagate

be sure power is supplied to the HDD, if and inter HDD change the cables, if is external check the USB cable and see if you need a complementary power brick or a second USB to power it.

Posted on Mar 17, 2011